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THE
HISTORY
OF
JACK and the GIANTS
CHAP. I
Of his Birth and Parentage and how he discoursed with a country Vicar, when he was but seven years old.
In the reign of King Arthur, near
the land’s end of England, namely,
the county of Cornwall, there lived a
wealthy farmer who had one only son,
commonly known by the name of Jack
the Giant killer. He was brisk and of a
lively ready wit; so that whatever he
